{"product_id":"for-the-children-erica-r-meiners-9780816692767","title":"For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Childhood has never been available to all.\" In her opening chapter of \u003ci\u003eFor the Children?\u003c\/i\u003e, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is constructed as child protection often does not benefit many young people or their communities. Placing the child at the heart of the targeted criminalization debate, \u003ci\u003eFor the Children? \u003c\/i\u003econsiders how perceptions of innocence, the safe child, and the future operate in service of the prison industrial complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States has the largest prison population in the world, with incarceration and policing being key economic tools to maintain white supremacist ideologies. Meiners examines the school-to-prison pipeline and the broader prison industrial complex in the United States, arguing that unpacking \u003ci\u003echild protection\u003c\/i\u003e is vital to reducing the nation's reliance on its criminal justice system as well as building authentic modes of public safety. Rethinking the meanings and beliefs attached to the child represent a significant and intimate thread of the work to dismantle facets of the U.S. carceral state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking an interdisciplinary approach and building from a scholarly and activist platform, \u003ci\u003eFor the Children?\u003c\/i\u003e engages fresh questions in the struggle to build sustainable and flourishing worlds without prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erica R. Meiners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816692769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816692767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Erica R. Meiners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947333484799,"sku":"9780816692767","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d78ead7-f4ce-4fb6-b1d5-a53653ee2539.jpg?v=1681518101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-the-children-erica-r-meiners-9780816692767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}